Events

Alice in Chains
2010-05-20 | MAC At Monmouth
95.9 WRAT presents

Thursday, May 20
THE PARLOR MOB opens the show
All Ages to Enter, 21 to Drink with Proper I.D.
Produced by AEG Live and Concerts East Incorporated.
A metal band with an alternative-rock edge, Alice in Chains was among the biggest to emerge from the grunge scene that spawned Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden. The group’s dark, bitter songs occupy a musical landscape somewhere between Metallica’s dense head bangers and Pearl Jam’s grinding anthems.
After a string of shows in New York that sold out in minutes earlier this year, Alice In Chains has announced a May 20 show at the new MAC at Monmouth University.

Backstreet Boys
2010-06-13 | MAC At Monmouth
THE BACKSTREET BOYS
Sunday, June 13, 2010
MINDLESS BEHAVIOR opens the show
Produced by AEG Live and Concerts East

Mihaela Mosculiuc
2010-09-21 16:30 (America/New_York)
Mihaela Mosculiuc
Part of the South-Central-Eastern Europe: Legacies and Identities Project
Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. She received an M.A. from Salisbury University, an M.F.A. in poetry from New England College, and a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Maryland. Her poetry collection, Father Dirt (winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award) appeared from Alice James Books in 2010, and her co-translation of Carmelia Leonte’s Death Searches for You a Second Time was published by Red Dragonfly Press in 2003. She has lectured on Eastern European American immigration literature, Roma/Gypsy culture, and translation theory at universities in the US and in Europe. Her translations of Romanian poetry appear in Arts & Letters, Mississippi Review, Connecticut Review, America, Absinthe,and Mid-American Review. She has published poems, reviews, and articles in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Poetry International,Pleiades, Interculturality and Translation, Soundings, and Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics (Frankfurt: Lang, 2009).

David St. John
2010-10-14 16:30
David St. John has been honored, over the course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize (a career award for teaching and poetic achievement) from The Folger Shakespeare Library, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His work has been published in countless literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper’s, Antaeus, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized. He has taught creative writing at Oberlin College and The Johns Hopkins University and currently teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he served as Director of The Ph. D. Program in Literature and Creative Writing. David St. John is the author of nine collections of poetry (including Study for the World’s Body, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry), most recently The Face: A Novella in Verse, as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. He is presently completing a new volume of poems entitled, The Auroras. He is also the co-editor, with Cole Swensen, of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry.

PERFORMANCE ARTIST TERRY GALLOWAY PRESENTS: OUT ALL NIGHT AND LOST MY SHOES
2010-10-20 16:30
PERFORMANCE ARTIST TERRY GALLOWAY PRESENTS “OUT ALL NIGHT AND LOST MY SHOES”
directed by Donna M. Nudd
Wed.
CO-SPONSORS OF EVENT: Disabilities Awareness Month Committee, The
Department of Communication, CommWorks: Students Committed to
Performance, Office of Student Activities
DESCRIPTION OF SHOW: Not quite blind as a bat, but definitely deaf as
a doornail, Terry Galloway is the modern medical accident who’s asking
tough questions about disability, queerness, performance, and more in
Out All Night and Lost My Shoes, one of the foundational texts in the
history of disability performance. It’s one hour of pure, energetic
theater that mixes poetry, storytelling, stand- up, New Vaudeville and
plain old corny vaudeville in a charged, moving celebration of life –
hers and that of all oddballs.
Artist bios:
Terry Galloway (writer/performer) is a little “d” deaf, queer writer
and performer. She gained a reputation for playing comic male roles on
stage (and off) as a performer and Research Associate of the University
of Texas’ alternative Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare at Winedale; and
at Esther’s Follies, the longest running musical comedy theater in the
Southwest, of which she was a founding member. In New York she wrote and
performed mixed drag cabarets and one woman shows for venues as diverse
as American Place Theater to W.O.W. Cafe. Her plays and performance
pieces, including Heart of a Dog, Out All Night and Lost My Shoes, Lardo
Weeping and In the House of the Moles, have since been produced around
the world in venues ranging from the Xteresa in Mexico City and the Zap
Club in Brighton, England.
Her writing life has been as varied as her performing life and she has
published dozens of articles, poems, personal essays and monologues in
magazines, books, and journals including Texas Monthly, the Austin
Chronicle, The American Voice, Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater,
Sleepaway: Writers on Summer Camp and With Wings, an anthology of
writing by women with disabilities. Her memoir, Mean Little Deaf Queer,
was published by Beacon Press in 2009.
Donna Marie Nudd (Director/Dramaturge) is a Professor in the
Department of Communication at Florida State University. Her essays have
appeared in numerous academic journals and books. She has served as
director and dramaturge for Terry Galloway’s one-woman shows that were
produced in Edinburgh, London, New York, Toronto, Mexico City and
numerous alternative venues throughout the U.S. In 1987, Donna Marie
Nudd also co-founded an alternative theatre/media company, the Mickee
Faust Club, with Terry Galloway in Tallahassee, Florida. The Club’s most
recent work is a compilation of comic disability-themed video shorts
called Mickee Faust’s Gimp Parade. In 2000, Nudd and Galloway jointly
received a lifetime achievement award, the “Leslie Irene Coger Award”
from the National Communication Association for their distinguished
record of work in performance.

Bob Dylan
2010-11-14 20:00
The Bob Dylan concert on November 14 was a huge success! Thanks to all who attended this sold-out concert. We encourage you to check back soon for more information on upcoming events.
Bob Dylan and His Band
Sold Out!
Sunday, November 14, 2010, 8 p.m.
Produced by AEG Live and Concerts East

HILLERBRAND & MAGSAMEN EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO/PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
2010-11-30 18:30
HILLERBRAND + MAGSAMEN EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO/PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
Screening Artist talk
Tues. Nov. 30, 2010 at The ShowRoom in Asbury Park, 6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by The ShowRoom
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Through the performative strategy of what they call formational interventions, Hillerbrand+Magsamen’s work interstices between art and cultural geography by exploring perceptions of language, identity, media, and family within a uniquely American subjectivities and created system.
ARTIST BIOS: The work of the collaborative artistic and curatorial team of Hillerbrand+Magsamen has been shown internationally in screenings and exhibitions including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, LA Freewaves New Media Art Festival, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, the Aurora Picture Show, Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Dallas Video Festival, the Hudson River Museum, Boston Center for the Arts Mills Gallery, Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film and the Dallas Contemporary.
They have been awarded the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Residency in New York City, a residency at the Experimental Television Center and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Creativity Award. They have also received a Carol Crow Fellowship from the Houston Center for Photography and a Houston Arts Alliance Artist Grant.
They live and work in Houston TX where Mary Masgamen is the curator for the mirco-cinema The Aurora Picture Show and Stephan Hillerbrand teaches in the University of Houston Digital Media Program.

Music as a Weapon V Tour
2011-01-22 18:30
Korn and Disturbed, two of rock’s biggest acts, teamed up to co-headline this year’s “Monster Energy Music as a Weapon V Tour.” Special guests, Sevendust and In This Moment started off what was an incredible high-energy rock experience.
Music as a Weapon V Tour
Disturbed and Korn
with Special GuestsSevendust and In This Moment
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Produced by AEG Live and Concerts East.

Shadow Puppies
2011-02-07 19:00
SHADOW PUPPIES
DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Shadow Puppies is an internationally celebrated cutting edge trio that conjures rich, complex, and entrancing worlds of electronic sound and vision in real-time. Using electric guitars, an
arsenal of objects, electronics, homebrew computer software, and original digital technologies, audiences experience an uninterrupted journey through sonic eruptions, video hallucinations, and aggressive, entrancing mediascapes.
ARTIST BIOS:
Kurt Ralske’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 2009 Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Kurt is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, and received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin in 2003. Kurt programmed and co-designed the 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC.
Hans Tammen has received a Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has recorded on labels such as Innova, ESP-DISK, Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid.
Nick Didkovsky has received commissioning grants from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer’s Commissioning/Music USA, the Jerome Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund and was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Computer Arts Fellowship. He has performed at the Whitney Museum of American Art and is the principle author of the computer music language Java Music Specification Language (JMSL).
Nick Didkovsky’s Web site | Kurt Ralske’s Web site | Hans Tammen’s Web site

Thomas and Friends Live!
2011-02-12 15:00
Location: MAC at Monmouth
THOMAS AND FRIENDS Live!
On Stage in
THOMAS SAVES THE DAY
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Produced by AEG Live and Concerts East.

Shore Conference Basketball
2011-02-25 18:00
Shore Conference Basketball
High School Boy’s and Girl’s Basketball Finals
The MAC at Monmouth University
Friday, February 25, 2011
Girl’s Game: 6:00 p.m.
St. John Vianney vs. Neptune
Boy’s Game: 7:45pm
Rumson-Fair Haven vs. Raritan

NJSIAA Boys NJ State Basketball Semi-Finals
2011-03-18 17:00
NJSIAA Boys NJ StateBasketball Semi-Finals
The MAC at Monmouth University

Andrei Codrescu
2011-03-22 19:00
“An Evening with Andrei Codrescu: From Transylvania to New Orleans—A Poet’s Journey”
Codrescu will discuss the politics and culture(s) of East and West, the collapse of communism (which he covered for the U.S. media) and its aftermath, and the historical and literary changes that are reshaping Eastern Europe and informing his own relations to spaces of origin or adoption. He will talk about what it means to live simultaneously in several worlds, both chronologically and biographically, and what political sense this nomadism makes (or doesn’t). His talk will draw on his memoir, “The Hole in the Flag: an Exile’s Story of Return and Revolution,” and recent play, “Ghidul Copilariei Retrocedate” (“Guide to a Recovered Childhood”), which premiered recently at the International Theater Festival in Sibiu, Romania, his birthplace.
March 23, 2010, 4:30 pm
Wilson Auditorium
Andrei Codrescu will be reading from his new book, The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press, 2010). Book description (Princeton UP) The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a “typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik”–one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to The Tools of Poetry (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and The Ten Muses of Poetry (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating… ), and assigns each of them a tutelary “Ghost-Companion” poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960s and 1970s, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn’t actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs’s funeral procession stopped at McDonald’s, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.

Jennifer Grotz
2011-04-26 16:30
Jennifer Grotz’s second book of poems, The Needle, is forthcoming in Spring 2011. Her first book of poems, Cusp, was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Bakeless Prize and also received the Natalie Ornish Best First Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, essays and translations from both the French and Polish appear widely in journals such as New England Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Poetry and Legitimate Dangers. She teaches poetry and translation at the University of Rochester and also serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

The Laurie Berkner Band
2011-06-05 14:00
The Laurie Berkner Band
Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 2 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $35 and $25
Tickets are on sale now!
Doors open at 1 p.m. and the box office opens at 11 a.m. on day of show.
Produced by Concerts East and AEG Live
On sale Tuesday, April 26, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.com, Phone Charge at 800.745.3000, The Mac Box office, and Ticketmaster retail outlets, including select Wal-Mart stores.

Scapino
2011-06-23 20:00 - 2011-07-03 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Scapino, by director Frank Dunlop and actor Jim
Dale, is an outrageous comedy adapted “a long way off from Moliere” but
exhibiting the classic elements of the French master and the Italian
“commedia d’ell arte.” Scapino is the wily servant who twists the rules
to trick his master’s father into allowing him to marry the girl of his
dreams while the waiters, waitresses and customers of a seaside
restaurant sing parodies of “O Solo Mio” and the names of menu items
like “veal scallopine.”
Preview: June 23 at 8 p.m.
Opening Night: June 24 at 8 p.m.
Performances: June 25, 29 and 30, July 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m.; June 26, July 3 and 10 at 7 p.m.
Cost: Preview night – Adult/Senior $20; Student $10; June 24 through July 10 – Adult $35; Senior $30; Student $15

Molly Sweeny
2011-07-14 20:00 - 2011-07-31 19:00 | Lauren K. Woods Theatre
Molly Sweeny is by the prize-winning Irish playwright, Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations).
It is the story of Molly Sweeny, a woman who has been blind since
childhood, who undergoes an operation to restore her vision. Based
loosely on an essay by Oliver Saks (Awakenings), the tale is told by Molly, her husband, and the doctor.
Preview: July 14 at 8 p.m.
Opening Night: July 15 at 8 p.m.
Performances: July 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, and 30 at 8 p.m.; July 17, 24 and 31 at 7 p.m.
Cost: Preview night – Adult/Senior $15; Student $10; July 15 through July 31 – Adult $30; Senior $22; Student $15

Wiz Khalifa
2011-07-29 19:30
Location: MAC at Monmouth
WIZ KHALIFA
BIG SEAN and CHEVY WOODS
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
The MAC at Monmouth University
All tickets $38 and applicable surchargesTickets are on sale now!Limit six per person.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.The Box Office will be open at 4 p.m. on the day of the show.
The parking lot will open at 5:30 p.m. There will be a $10 parking fee per car and tailgating is prohibited.
Produced by Concerts East and AEG Live
Tickets are on sale through ticketmaster.com, phone charge at 800-745-3000, the MAC box office, and select ticketmaster retail outlets.

Eric Sambol's WILD
2011-08-15 09:00 - 2011-09-30 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
Eric Sambol’s WILD
Nature Photographs
August 15 – September 30, 2011
Monday – Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Eric Sambol uses the medium of photography to reawaken his childhood passion for nature. The exhibition, curated by Eric, showcases the remarkable wildlife he has had the pleasure to interact with. The show features wildlife from four different and distinct locations in New Jersey, Alaska, Manitoba, and British Columbia. www.EricSambol.com
The artist is donating all the proceeds from the sales at this exhibit to the Scholarship Fund of Monmouth University and the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey.

Languor Temperance Repose
2011-09-06 19:00 - 2011-10-14 19:00 | Rotary Ice House Gallery
An invitational photography exhibition featuring the work of eleven artists from across the United States.
The artists in this exhibition cover a great deal of photographic ground including the traditions of the still life, landscape, abstraction and the constructed or fabricated image using analog and digital practices in color and black and white. Curated by Specialist Professor, Anne Leighton Massoni.

Lecture at Wilson Hall Auditorium:
Thursday, September 22, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Opening Reception at Gallery:
Thursday, September 22, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

TRUST: Second Acts In Young Lives
2011-09-12 19:30
Location: Pollak Theater
TRUST: Second Acts In Young Lives
Director: Nancy Kelly
Monday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Pollak Theatre
Admission courtesy of Monmouth University
TRUST tells the story of eighteen-year-old Marlin, a struggling Honduran immigrant to the United States who has lived through some of the harshest cruelties imaginable. Committed to a psychiatric hospital, Marlin reveals her secrets to a counselor who recommends she join the Albany Park Theater Project, a teen theater company that makes original plays from company members’ life stories. Propelled by her experience with the company, Marlin transitions from a traumatized to empowered young woman.

Shara McCallum
2011-09-15 16:30
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of three collections of poetry, This Strange Land(Alice James Books, April 2011), Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999). A fourth book, New & Selected Poems, will be published in the UK by Peepal Tree Press in 2012. Her poems have been widely published in the US, the UK, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Israel, have been reprinted in textbooks and anthologies of American, African American, Caribbean, and world literatures, and have been translated into Spanish and Romanian. Her personal essays appear in The Antioch Review, Creative Nonfiction, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, individual artist grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and an Academy of American Poets Prize, and has been a Cave Canem Fellow and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Taylor 2 Dance
2011-09-24 20:00
Cost: $30/25

Nick Flynn
2011-10-06 16:30
Nick Flynn is the author of two memoirs, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (Norton, 2010) and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and has been translated into 13 languages. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is currently being made into a film, entitled Welcome to Suck City, starring Robert DeNiro as Flynn’s father, due for release in 2011. Flynn is also the author of three books of poetry, The Captain Asks For a Show of Hands(Graywolf, 2011), Some Ether(Graywolf, 2000), which won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and Blind Huber (Graywolf, 2002). He has been awarded fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. His poems, essays, and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review.

19th Century Maritime Art
2011-10-13 09:00 - 2011-10-23 19:00 | Pollak Gallery
19th Century Maritime Art
Our History in Paintings
October 13 – 23, 2011
Pollak Gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Guest Lecture:
Thursday, October 13, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Pollak Theatre
Alan Granby, noted Maritime Art Historian and Author
45 exquisite paintings by famed 19th century marine artists such as James Butterworth, Antonio Jacobsen, James Bard, Francis Silva, E.T. Baker, William Yorke, and others. Also, prints and photographs will be on display including scenes from New York Harbor and the Jersey Shore.

Indigo Girls
2011-10-14 20:00
Cost: $75/50
For more than two decades, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have presented some of their best music in front of cheering crowds – sometimes in the cramped confines of a small club, sometimes in a vast arena packed with thousands. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriters celebrate their long-standing passion for live performances on their latest release, Staring Down the Brilliant Dreamon IG Recordings/Vanguard Records. This two-disc CD features 31 songs, each hand-selected by the duo to capture the most memorable moments of their 2006-2009 amazing run of concerts. The Indigos still consider live shows the most vibrant part of what they do and there is no place better than Pollak Theatre to see them do it up close and personal.

Henry and Mudge
2011-10-18 10:30
Moving from the city to a new
house in the country can be tough. Just ask Henry, who can’t find a
playmate in his new neighborhood! Luckily, he’s got Mudge, a great big,
182-pound canine buddy, with whom he can share all kinds of adventures!
Henry discovers that having a
pet is a big responsibility — they need to be fed, they need to be
taken out for walks, and of course they need lots of love and playtime!
And when the dog is as big as Mudge is, they also need good training.
Henry teaches his new friend to sit, heel, and shake his hand, but
rolling over is one trick Henry just can’t seem to teach Mudge, no
matter how hard he tries.
When Henry’s cousin Annie comes
for a visit, Mudge is so charmed by her that he finally rolls over at
her command! Henry thinks Mudge must love Annie more than him, because
the dog only does the trick for her. Very upset, Henry runs away into
the cold dark woods to find adventures on his own. Mudge follow’s the
boy’s scent into the forest—he really does love Henry and doesn’t want
to be without him.
Will the two friends be
reunited? Find out in this Theatreworks musical, based on the
best-selling series of books by Cynthia Rylant.

One Diva, One Legend, One Woman
2011-10-22 20:00
Jody Joseph transforms herself physically and vocally in this live nostalgic show as the mystical, ethereal Stevie Nicks and the rebellious hard rocker Janis Joplin.
VIP/meet and greet available! Check with the box office for more information.
Produced by Concerts East, Inc
Cost: $48/32.50/23

Puzzle Project
2011-10-25 - 2011-11-23 | Pollak Gallery
Puzzle Project
October 25 – November 23, 2011
Puzzle Pieces are $10 each
Pollak Gallery
We invite you to be part of the Monmouth University Puzzle Project, a collaborative group art exhibition. Participants purchase a 24″ x 24″ universal puzzle piece and then turn it into a unique work of art. When the piece is complete it is inserted into the puzzle, which will continue to grow over time on the walls of the Pollak Gallery. The University’s puzzle will eventually be added to over 5,000 other pieces for an exhibition in New York City. This project is co-sponsored by the Student Activities Board and the Center for the Arts.
The Puzzle Installation & Collaborative Project is a growing & traveling, group art exhibition. It was initially sponsored by the Monmouth County Arts Council and was created and developed by the artists Tim Kelly & Sandy Taylor (MCAC) and Marie Maber (Brookdale Community College) for the 2009 Teen Arts Festival at Brookdale. Click here for more information about the project.
To purchase a puzzle piece please come to the Pollak Theatre Box Office or email at SAB@monmouth.edu.
*All proceeds from the Monmouth University Puzzle Project go to Autism Awareness*
Use this link for updates on the puzzle project.

Civil War Voices
2011-10-30 15:00
Cost: $40/32
